Sunday, November 18, 2012

Love Song

Once you
are sick of a song -- or if you can’t remember why you first fell in love with
it – you just don’t want to dance to it anymore.If that music doesn’t inspire you to move,
you start to feel as if your shoes were made of lead.It’s hard to tread lightly or to even pick up
your foot to go forward.

However,
sometimes you can change your perception of the song.You might hear a drum or sax thread in it
that you really hadn’t noticed before.Or
you can perceive a depth in the music that at first you may not have
appreciated.You might try to do a new
movement to an old song that makes it fresh again.

You
can’t force yourself to love a song.There is a certain chemistry between you and the melody that’s ephemeral
and not explainable.Once you get tired
of a song, if you can’t appreciate different things about it or re-capture your
synchronicity, it is difficult to move to its beat.If your movement supports the song and the
song supports your movement, there is mutual reverence and love, so your
appreciation can grow.Repetition brings
familiarity and familiarity can breed deeper understanding, love and
respect.

If you don’t listen
to the music while you are dancing (or feel its beat) you will be either ahead
of it or behind it—you will not be in sync.This is like thinking about what you are going to say while the other
person is trying to communicate – you just won’t really hear what he is saying.

Familiar
songs can evoke deep emotions.Listen to
Louis Armstrong singing “What a Wonderful World.” I defy you to be unemotional.

Old
songs that we love go deep into our hearts.We may forget to appreciate the songs we are familiar with, but the
experience of hearing and appreciating them again, can renew us.

Love
never dies; it’s the only thing that’s real.

It’s the
same with relationships.Sometimes it’s
essential to go your own way, but it is also healing and inspirational to
remember why you first fell in love – even if you’ve moved on.

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I have been teaching dance for over 25 years. I am now teaching at Dansue Dance Fitness, 509 Westport Ave, on the Norwalk/Westport line, CT. This blog is about how the process of dancing,choreographing and teaching can give us lessons about living our best life.